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Making a Better World : Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles /

With sharp historical perspective, Making a Better World traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city's built environment. Don Parson's examination not only gives us the recent history of a city but also opens up a new debate on a current nat...

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Autor principal: Parson, Donald Craig (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Bristol] : [University Presses Marketing, distributor], 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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